New Jersey (BB 62) - Naval Cruise Book

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N 4 LTJG Hayward QM1 Fischer 1-ISI R PHAN Ta lor QM1 Fischer looks for navigational aids. y QM2 Thom QM3 Crouse g QM3 Greene SN Young F QMSA Barroca SA O'Brien ii 0' . if 3' lf? ad d, X, 11 ,U ii iii U. I .aylor V PHAN TaY'0' SR Edmiston uses an aIidae to give readings on the shlp's position. LTJG Hayward plots the ship's course on the bridge. Navigation S 61

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Phone Talker, 1940's LCDR Steve Curtis Navigation When considering navigation as an art or science, it is essenilal that the prudent mariner have a tremendous reservoir of facts, hlflls and common sense .... The navigator, his assistant, and eight accomplished Cluarfef' masters embody this art and science while determining the Ships position whether steaming in the vast reaches of the oceans Of Pllo' ting narrow straits and ports 0' call. Departing Long Beach, we sailed north to Alaska, throughnthe Unimak Pass and into the Bering Sea. During this time, the naV1Sa' tion team collected vital sounding information which will be l1Sed to update charts and publications for future use by mariners W0f1d' wide. Pusan, Subic Bay and Hong Kong were building blocks of ex' perience that would prove vital through the Singapore and MalaCC21 Straits and the Persian Gulf as we fixed the ship's position CVC? 15 minutes. The gang,' was further challenged at each Port untl we reached the familiar waters of Long Beach. n During the deployment, Navigation made 2,200 celestial Ob' SefVati0nS, logged over 12,000 fixes and corrected over 350 Qharts' With water 'neath the keel, and head between the bu0YS,, New Jersey was on track, on time!',

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Lights and FIa95, 1940's LCDR Frank Martin LCDR Chuck White Operations If you want to know what's going on, what happened, Of will happen tomorrow, ask someone in Operations. This, 111 characterizes the mission of the Operations Department. WF fingers on the pulse of the ship and battle group. Whether it b6 ning the schedule, conducting an exercise, tracking the of the ship and others around her, predicting the weather, our sensors, communicating with other ships and shore, for electronic signals - Operations Department does it all. P to fulfill the battleship's mission during PacEx and Persian Gulf0 ' erations was the accomplishment of Operations during Westlzace '90. Keeping the battleship on the cuttin ed e of Naval war al' 3 g . . the future - this will forever be the mission of the Operations Depart H1S1'lt.